Alimetrics Diagnostics

Coming to #EuroTier next month? Don’t miss the chance to connect with Tommi Timoharju and uncover the full depth of support that Alimetrics Diagnostics has to offer. Like an iceberg, what you see in our posts is just the tip! Meet with Tommi to dive deeper and discover how our solutions can truly assist animal producers and simplify feed additive development process. Discover our latest gut health panels: 🦠🐔PathoChick™ – Tracking key poultry pathogens ⚠️ PutreFact™ – Insights into harmful protein fermentation in the hindgut. Book a meeting today to explore the full scope of what we can offer!

Today we can celebrate a milestone – 1000 professionals from around the world now follow the Alimetrics Diagnostics page! Knowing that so many of you share our passion for the topics we care about is a huge motivation for our team. Your engagement shows us we’re heading in the right direction. Thank you for being part of our journey!

Sample collection and preservation are a foundation for every successful animal trial assessing parameters of intestinal health. 🧪 The analysis and interpretation of these samples are often the central focus and a substantial part of the project budget. So, we need to ensure the samples are collected and preserved properly to avoid irreversible variations in the data obtained. 📊 BioFreeze®, our preservation solution for intestinal samples: 📌 Stops all biological activity at ambient temperature, ensuring the integrity of your samples. 📌 DNA, RNA, metabolites, and proteins stay perfectly preserved for weeks in different matrices. 📌 Is compatible with DNA- and ELISA-based assays and with chemical analyses, offering increased flexibility when needed. 🚚 Paired with our customer-friendly delivery procedure, BioFreeze® makes sample handling easy, reliable, and stress-free. #GutHealth #MicrobiomeExpertise #BioFreeze

Would you sell more, if you knew more about the mode of action of your feed additive? Competitors are knocking at your customers doors daily, the expertise level among animal producers is rising, prompting nutritionists to look for novel solutions – especially if your product has been around for a while. Relying solely on good performance data and a general idea of the mode of action is no longer sufficient in the highly competitive feed additive market. 🔬 Alimetrics Diagnostics can help reinforce your product sales with robust mode-of-action data to support your claims and highlight product’s benefits. With over 20 years of experience, we have worked with almost every feed additive category that impacts the intestinal or rumen microbiome: probiotics, enzymes, postbiotics, antibacterials, and more. Which category are you interested in? 📊 Get in touch to find out how we can help extend the lifetime and success of your product. 📅 Book a meeting with Tommi Timoharju to learn more.

🐔Protein fermentation in the hind gut? In an ideal case, the majority amino acids and small peptides are effectively absorbed in the duodenum/jejunum of birds. However, often that is not the case due to the characteristics of the dietary protein, anti-nutritional factors, compromised secretion of digestive enzymes, suboptimal pH in the proventriculus-gizzard, etc. 🦠When residual proteins escape to the lower intestine, they are attacked by a highly diverse and efficient caecal microbial community. Here there are bacteria that are specialised in protein digestion and can capture energy from amino acid degradation; some also use amino acids as a source of carbon for all the building blocks of their biomass. 📊Most amino acids will be metabolised to common volatile fatty acids such as acetic, propionic and butyric acid. But there are also other harmful metabolites: especially those from the degradation of aromatic amino acids are known for their toxicity – indole, skatole, phenol, cresol. 💡With our new PutreFact™ panel you can track protein fermentation in the lower gut. Contact Tommi Timoharju to find out more!

Increased protein fermentation in the caecum and colon indicates poor ileal protein digestibility and produces harmful metabolites. Experiencing a performance drop with a new diet component? Want to evaluate a prospective feed additive to support protein utilization? Data provided by the PutreFact™ panel can give you the insights you need! Find out more: https://lnkd.in/dpMHye_d

Teemu Rinttilä, Head of Research Services: Unlike an academic institution, where research is often focused on a specific area or topic, Alimetrics has a diverse portfolio of projects that allow me to work on different aspects of microbiology and gut health every day. 🌟 This diversity not only keeps my role engaging, but also provides continuous opportunities to learn new things and develop skills across a broad range of areas. 📚 Whether it's improving animal or human health, or environmental sustainability, I find it incredibly fulfilling to see the positive impact of our research. I enjoy developing new analysis methods to understand complex microbial interactions. 🧠 What I find particularly exciting is that we're not afraid to think outside the box and challenge ourselves to drive innovation. 🔬🤝 Our colleagues in the Diagnostics team use the findings and expertise of our Research branch in their daily work, enabling seamless collaboration and direct impact on new diagnostic tools.

🐔 Poultry producers face significant challenges from various pathogens, including E. coli, Salmonella, Clostridium perfringens, and Eimeria species. However, a growing concern is Enterococcus cecorum (EC), which has emerged as a major cause of skeletal disease in broilers and breeder chickens over the past two decades. EC is now spreading globally, and its increasing antibiotic resistance makes it difficult to control. 🔬 While commensal EC strains are typically harmless in the gut microbiota, pathogenic strains can escape the gut and cause Enterococcal spondylitis, also known as 'kinky back'. It causes lameness, hind-limb paresis, and increases mortality. The translocation of EC usually occurs during the first two days of life. The pathogen can also invade internal organs, producing lesions in the pericardium, lungs, liver, and spleen. 🦠 The complexity of EC's impact lies in its ability to take advantage of compromised intestinal integrity, weakened immunity, and skeletal health in birds, making them more susceptible to severe infections. 🧪 Our intelligent diagnostic panels will help you track various gut health parameters, from SCFA production to inflammatory markers. To start mapping pathogenic challenges, we recommend our new panel, PathoChick™, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the most critical pathogens in poultry production and gut health: • Clostridium perfringens • Avian Pathogenic E. coli (APEC) • Salmonella spp. • Enterococcus cecorum • Eimeria spp. • Total bacteria 💡 By understanding and managing these pathogens, you can protect your birds and prevent profitability decreases. Contact Tommi Timoharju to learn, how Alimetrics can help poultry farms track pathogen challenges. #guthealth #enterococcus #poultryhealth

❓What pathogens are the main profit killers in poultry production? Last week, we asked you to share your opinions, and here are the results of this improvised poll: Salmonella spp. - 47% Clostridium perfringens - 30% E. coli (APEC) - 17% Eimeria spp. - 7% 🐔 Beyond these, Enterococcus cecorum has become a serious troublemaker in the poultry industry. There were many discussions about pathogenic Enterococcus cecorum at the ICPIH conference in Manila this March 🦠 💡 That's why we've chosen Enterococcus cecorum to kick off our new post series, "Bacteria of the Month". Coming soon! #PoultryHealth #GutHealth #PathogenControl #ICPIH

All the bugs below are really bad. But if you could choose one to monitor on a regular basis, which one would you pick?